If you can't make it to downtown Los Angeles, follow the FIDM Museum on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for live updates from the launch party, and watch the donations mount up in real time on our online #4for400 scoreboard. And don't forget to text MUSEUM to 243725 to donate $4 (or more) to save 400 years of fashion history! (You can also donate online or by mail.) Then share, like, re-gram, and re-tweet #4for400 posts, so your friends and followers can join the campaign. Feel free to use the graphics below, showing just a few highlights from this one-of-a-kind collection!

The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection is a private collection of 1,400 rare garments and accessories representing 400 years of fashion history. If it becomes part of the FIDM Museum's permanent collection, it will serve as a cultural treasure for our visitors and an inspirational and educational tool for generations to come. Please help us as we raise the funds needed to keep these remarkable objects at the FIDM Museum.